Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Rugtitel: VBAC in Zimbabwe and the Netherlands. - Auteursnaam op omslag: Wilbert Spaans. - Op omslag tevens: Safe motherhood. Met bibliogr., lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

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Proefschrift Maastricht. / Met lit. opg. en een samenvatting in het Nederlands.

The first Christian historian, Eusebius of Caesarea, wrote his pioneering Ecclesiastical History in the early 4th century, just after the western emperor Constantine’s “conversion” to Christianity. It was a history born of Eusebius’ present and designed for the future. Reading Eusebius and the Ecclesiastical History within the second sophistic movement, I argue that Eusebius’ picture of Christian history appropriated the past to fundamentally re-imagine the essence of Christian authority. Eusebius’ descriptions of past Christians used them as exemplars of a new model of Christian leadership designed for his 4th century context. Eusebius was writing in the first place for the Christian clergy; elite provincial Christians who shared the mores and stereotypes of their elite non-Christian neighbours. He therefore presented a model of Christian authority not based around the extreme violence of martyrdom and asceticism which had characterised the charismatic heroes of earlier 2nd and 3rd century Christian literature. It was based instead on a traditional elite rhetoric of temperance, learned through paideia and manifested in care for dependents. Around this thread Eusebius built his Empire-wide church.

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Preeclampsia and selected immunogenetic factors Our objective was to evaluate plasma levels of the eight most common antiphospholipid antibodies (antiphosphatidylserine, antiphosphatidylethanolamine, antiphosphatidylinositol, antiphosphatidylglycerol, antiphosphatidic acid, antiannexin V, anticardiolipin and anti 2-glycoprotein I antibodies) by ELISA method and selected inherited thrombophilia (F V- Leiden mutation, FII mutation G20210A, C677T and A1298C variants of the gene for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase-MTHFR) by DNA analysis of peripheral blood lymphocytes using the real-time PCR in fifty-five women with preeclampsia in the period immediately before urgent termination of pregnancy. Fifty-five healthy women without preeclampsia was considered as a controll group. Entered data were examined using a non-parametric Wilcoxon's test, univariate analysis were perfomed using the Fisher's exact test and statistical dependence between variables was assessed using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. We demonstrated that women with preeclampsia had significantly higher levels of anticardiolipin antibodies in the isotope IgG (p <0.01) and IgM (p <0.01), elevated levels of antiphosphatidylserine antibodies in the isotope IgG(p <0.01) and antiethanolamine antibodies in the isotope IgM (p <0.01) when...

As a debate over the legitimacy of the liturgical use of images, the Byzantine Iconoclastic controversy (ca. 726-843) had important political and theological implications, which modern scholarship generally tends to treat unconnectedly. The primary object of this study is to explicate the relationship between the political and theological dimensions of the controversy and to reconstruct the debate over images in a comprehensive approach that accounts for both its political and theological dimensions. / The main argument of the thesis is that the question of images was a politico-theological problem and the prospects of 'political expediency' and 'theological propriety' were correlated in the minds of both the Iconoclastic reformers and their Iconodule rivals. Indeed, it was through their respective soteriologies that the two parties gave meaning to the theological and political dimensions of the debate in relationship with their respective theological first principles. Therefore, the Iconoclastic debate is explained as a soteriological dispute where the worldview represented by the traditional Byzantine religio-political ideology and the worldview represented by the proponents of images were set over against each other. / The main contribution of our thesis to modern scholarship of the Byzantine Iconoclastic controversy is to reconstruct the debate in the light of the contending theological paradigms of the two parties, which shaped not only their attitudes towards images but also their political stands in relation to the Byzantine Empire's involvement in ecclesiastical politics. This new synthetic reading explains the debate in reference to two essential theological cornerstones of the Byzantine tradition---the Eusebian "Imperial Theology" and the Christological definition of the council of Chalcedon---both taken as key reference points, against which the political and doctrinal stands of both parties were constructed and interpreted.

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